nancy hat, going the glass half empty mode, focusing on the fact that in the immortal words of joey brown in some like it hot, nobody's perfect, at least not when it comes to investing. why? not because i'm some kind of misanthrope, stock sadist who delights in spreading despair and making people miserable and not trying to make you hate stocks even more than you do in the wake of the flash crash, facebook ipo, so many examples of insider trading it's hard to count. i'm trying to help you cope with your own fallibility as investor to make sure you're as prepared as possible to avoid losses caused by the slings and arrows of an outrageous market or whips and scorns of a european politician. while also putting yourself in a position to maximize your profits when things are going well. yes, and you know we've got to do that because bulls make money and bears make money and hogs gets slaughtered. a diversified portfolio trumps conviction. used to have it on my pc. by never having all your stock eggs in one sector basket you'll never have to suffer through the agony of watching everything you